Pluto's New Horizones

New Horizon image of Charon taken when the craft was closest to the Pluto system on 14 July 2015 from a distance of 466,000 KM. It shows a collection of vaguely-defined feature on the surface of pluto's biggest moon. Now, with this latest capture, The New Horizons team has confirmed that the big dent in the icy surface of the Moon shows a large impact Centre, surrounded by a couple of the canyons 1 larger than earth Grand Canyon.

85 years after its Discovery, humankind has for the first time had a clock look at the solar systems most distant member, Pluto now classified as a dwarf planet, the NASA space probe New Horizons flow past Pluto on 14 July, sending back the clearest images of it till date and revealing its detailed structure showing several features unknown till now.
Launched in 2006, New Horizons travelled for more than 9 years and covered a distance of more than 4.8 billion kilometres only to spend under 3 minutes near Pluto as it spend past its target at a speed of more than 58000 km per hour. But it was the most rewarding brief encounter in space history. I see mountains on Pluto and in you. Crisp view of its largest moon, Sharon are among the several discoveries the proverb able to make during the brief flyby. 
The success of the mission is by itself and unprecedented achievement of human ingenuity and endeavour, specially it was remember that the target was so incredibly far away and that that any spacecraft was using technology which was declared old. Moreover, because New Horizons hurtled through the Pluto system at more than 58000 km per hour, equalism with a particle as small as a grain of rice good incapacitate the spacecraft.

Visiting Pluto the probe is headed towards Deeper riches of the Kuiper Belt - a vast reason of ice objects beyond the orbit of Neptune that stretches at least 1.6 million kilometres beyond Pluto - and will keep sending even more discoveries back on earth. Researchers speculate it could continue operating well into the 2030s. Eventually it will escape the solar system entirely and join NASA for other spacecraft that are also headed to our already in interstellar space pioneers: 10 and 11 and version 1 and 2.
Because New Horizons is so far away, it takes about 4.5 hours for any data from the spacecraft to reach Earth. Even when it arrives at Earth, the signal is so fat that NASA has to use 61 M wide radio dishes one is in Australia, California, and Spain to pick it up. This means an extremely low rate of data transmission just about one kilometre per second with max new horizons take more than 42 minute to fully transmit an image that is 1024 pixels wide according to NASA at this rate, the entire data collected by New Horizons will takes 16 months to be transferred to earth. 
One important outcome of The New Horizons mission has been the revised estimate of pluto's diameter, which was shown to be about 3% larger 2370 rather than 2302 km estimated earlier. This makes Pluto larger than Eris, which has a diameter of 2336 KM. Before this Discovery Eris was taken to be larger than Pluto and was a key factor for reclassifying Pluto as a dwarf planet. This new size estimate as also employees implies that the lowest layer of pluto's atmosphere is much thinner than thought, probably a kilometer or two, at most.